What shits me most is that in the early months of the Reddit revolt was that people were organically posting topics of discussion and sharing personal original content. Then the bots came and posted clickbait articles dressed as news to drive clicks to the motherships of all these useless websites screaming for attention. It used to be your forum post would be locked if you only posted a link with no commentary or start of a discussion around what you were linking, the idea was to promote discussion, but that’s now gone and maybe the text on memes is the new version of that, I don’t know. Navigating away and filtering that is a daily process, but once you find that one or few communities and shut out the noise there are normal people living normal lives which is nice.